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Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur // Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur · March of the Machine (MOM)

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Times Brought

1087

Decks Running

518

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Etali, Primal Conqueror

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Trample When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. {9}

: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Etali, Primal Sickness

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur

Trample, indestructible Whenever Etali deals combat damage to a player, they get that many poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

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March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

Final zone distribution

254 instances

3.1%

Library

46.5%

Battlefield

17.7%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1087 brought · 472 players

Brought to game

1087

Ever drawn

233

Reached battlefield

159

Still on board at game end

118

Once cast, 74% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=134) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=597).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=55).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +8.0pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=277

12%

15%

14%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 83% (41 / 277 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.